Are you looking for your experienced San Diego business lawyer with a proven track record of success? The Watkins Firm has served the business community of San Diego and throughout California for more than four decades. Our highly recommended attorneys have received strong reviews from clients as well as genuine recognition and significant awards from the legal industry. You can rely upon the Watkins Firm and our San Diego business attorneys to handle your business issue or transaction.
3 Important Things to Look for in Your San Diego Business Lawyer:
- The most important qualification for your San Diego business attorney is experience. There is no substitute for the insights gained over more than 40 years of experience serving the San Diego and California business community.
- Your business attorney should be able to help with every aspect of business formation, corporate documents, contracts, licensing and distribution, intellectual property, as well as mergers and acquisitions.
- If you are in business you will encounter disputes and lawsuits. Your business attorney should have extensive experience and proven strategies to resolve disputes and lawsuits quickly and efficiently.
What Should You Look For in a Business Attorney
What should you look for in your corporate counsel or business attorney? The first and most important things to look for in a legal team for your business is experience and a proven track record of success. You want a lawyer who provides sound advice at every step of the way. Your business lawyer should be a trusted close adviser who knows exactly what you are up against, your industry and how to get you to the next level. The Watkins Firm has served countless businesses across more than four decades in virtually every vertical market. Chances are, we know a lot about your industry and how to help your business to avoid pitfalls which have set back others, including your competitors.
An Experienced San Diego Business Lawyer for Every Challenge and Opportunity
You want an experienced San Diego business lawyer you can count on in any challenge or opportunity. If you are serious about business, you will have ups and downs. You will experience periods of rapid growth and opportunity which create hurdles to be overcome. What are the best strategies to lay a solid foundation to support the growth and opportunities in front of. How does this period of growth affect your legal and regulatory exposure as an employer and a thriving business?
A successful business will also inevitably face disputes and legal exposure. Disagreements are inevitable and it might surprise you to learn that an experienced San Diego business lawyer at the Watkins Firm resolves the majority of our California business disputes and even potential lawsuits through effective, leveraged negotiation. We employ a unique strategy which is designed to protect our client’s goals and objectives while resolving any dispute in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
Pro-Tip: “If we’re forming them, then we help them select the right kind of company with their goals in mind, Or if they’re merging or buying something else we give them advice on whether they should change or how to expand it or what they can and can’t do with their company. If they’re in the merger and acquisition stage, then it’s a whole different list of things we’re going to talk to them about and work them up, get them set and ready to go to do the best they can.
Every company has contracts when they first come to see us. We don’t want to do a full dental exam on them. We’re just going to address what’s going on and get some background on a company, know generally what they’re doing, then we’re ready for any kind of questions they may have. We don’t want to fix anything that’s not broken. We don’t want to go in there and say, you need to do this. You’re doing this all wrong. No, if they’re making a profit, they’re doing it all right. And if there’s something they’re concerned about, we’ll help them address it. But any of the main issues, employment defense or responsibilities as a California employer, business, commercial contracts, all those will lead us to general background. And that means they don’t have to teach us or pay us to learn their general background for any questions they have in the future. We’ll get that at the first consultation. We’ll know what’s going on. And so if they come back and say, okay, you just handled my consumer or my lease or my independent contractor agreements, I got this other issue. We won’t have to say, oh, I need a couple hours of your time to get to know what you do. We’ll know,
And we’re not going to be creating that from scratch. Every agreement we do, every transaction we do, we have a database filled with those types of transactions. And if you go year by year, you end up with a database that’s more specific to different types of situations. So we have that resource and we combine that with a very expensive research library that we keep and we pay for with several different sources so that we can take our, because every agreement we do has got to be an original for the contract.
Well, if you’re a Watkins Firm client (or considering becoming one), just know you have a business relationship with your business lawyer who knows you. And if you’ve got a question or problem, call us or shoot us an email and get an answer.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner
A Business Lawyer for Every Step of Your Company’s Journey
The Watkins Firm can help with every aspect of establishing or operating a business from the formation of a new entity to an acquisition or merger through a stock purchase or asset purchase. We provide sound business counsel to San Diego and California employers in all aspects of employment contracts, processes and legal issues, including wage and hour and unpaid overtime disputes and PAGA actions. We carefully craft business contracts and help to structure successful and profitable business transactions. Our intellectual property attorneys help to preserve and protect your unique company assets including trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
If you are looking for an experienced San Diego business lawyer with a proven track record of success we invite you to review our podcast Episode 10 – The Importance of a Strong Corporate Attorney as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
Meet Dan Watkins:
Daniel W. Watkins is a true people person who sincerely listens. He cares about things that occur in other people’s lives. Dan enjoys digging into the facts and finding creative solutions to problems. He is not shy about giving his opinion either.
Dan’s interest in people make him deeply invested in every relationship and his exuberant personality makes him a true litigator. Dan fights for his clients with a fierce and calculated commitment.
Dan has practiced in the areas of business, medical practices and healthcare business, high tech/science, real estate and employment defense law since 1987. He is a seasoned litigator and true trial attorney with over 50 jury and bench trials to his credit. Dan has successfully represented both large companies and individuals and achieved substantial victories in well-publicized trials throughout California and the U.S.
He is experienced in business and corporate formation and administration, as well as all forms of alternative dispute resolution, including binding arbitration and mediation.
THE ROAD TO BECOMING A BUSINESS LAWYER AND LITIGATOR
Dan has almost 40 years of experience working with, for and against some of the largest insurance companies in the country. He has successfully tried and litigated cases in the areas of Healthcare Compliance, Commercial Litigation, Unfair Business Practices, Fraud, Breach of Contract, Battery, Premises Liability, Product Defect, Medical Malpractice, Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Construction Defect, as well as Unfair Competition, Defamation, and Trade Secrets.
In December 2003, Dan commenced litigation against Health South Surgery Centers-West, Inc and its’ subsidiaries, exposing the company’s extensive mismanagement and misconduct of its’ surgery centers. Dan has also been asked by some of California’s largest municipalities and corporations to conduct legally required investigations into matters involving alleged employment discrimination and harassment.
